THE brother of a stunning model butchered by a fiend who called himself the Scalp Hunter said last night: He doesn't deserve to be breathing he deserves to die.

Anguished Jack Halstead spoke out after the man who tortured, murdered and dismembered his sister Melissa and another ex-lover Paula Fields was jailed for life.

Carpenter John Sweeney killed them 11 years apart and dumped their mutilated bodies in canals.

American Jack, 56, said he was sorry Britain had outlawed hanging but went on: Even death wouldn't be enough for him.

If he could bring my sister back to life maybe that would be enough but he cant.

I just hope he never sees the light of day again.

Jack, of Dayton, Ohio, plans to confront the brute in jail to ask him why he murdered Melissa, 33.

The dad of four said: I want to see what someone looks like who is capable of doing that, so hopefully Ill be allowed to meet him. Hes {keeping quiet while his family are alive he wants his mother to think he didn't do these things.

But to me he is a coward. Look at what he did to his victims.

Woman-hater Sweeney, 54, killed Melissa in 1990 and hurled her body-parts into a Dutch canal.

Paula, 31, was butchered in 2001 and dumped in a London canal.

Their heads and hands have never been found.

Melissa left home as a teenager to travel the world.

Laughed

But as our poignant family snap of Jack kissing her cheek shows, she was always close to her brother.

Loving: Melissa's birthday kiss from little Jack, left, and as an aspiring model.

He said: Melissa could be egocentric but only in a tiny way.

She laughed at herself and was a good person who never hurt anyone and wasn't stuck-up.

Melissa met Sweeney when she was in London chasing her dream of being a model and photographer.

When her visa ran out, she went to Europe stalked by Sweeney.

He was even convicted in Vienna for a hammer attack that fractured her skull and scarred her for life. Yet she bailed him out of jail a kindness he repaid with horrific savagery.

Businessman Jack said: She once told me this guy was an a**hole.

Im still shocked she allowed him into her life, particularly with her ambition and dynamism.

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Initially you can sort of understand she didn't go for the superficial and maybe he spun a yarn.

But after a while we asked what the hell she was doing with a guy who attacked her and scarred her face.

Jack last spoke to Melissa a few months before she was murdered.

Tragically, they had a row about why she was with Sweeney.

Soon after, Melissa failed to ring home on a family birthday the first time shed ever missed one.

The family immediately alerted the US State Department.

Jack said: We knew she was dead and to me, Sweeney was the guy.

It was 18 years before Melissas body was identified and her ashes were sent home two years ago.

Jack feels hes now ready to scatter them at a secret location.

He said: Ive been waiting for her to tell me what to do.

She loved beautiful settings, so I think shell enjoy the ride.

Meanwhile, cops believe Sweeney killed at least three other girls he knew and two German men.